The war over the multi-million rand estate of the late International Pentecost Holiness Church (IPHC) leader Glayton Modise by his two widows turned violent on Wednesday.
The Sowetan reported that Modise's first wife Mirriam, also known as Mmapoloko, obtained a court order to remove her belongings from the church's headquarters in Zuurbekom, southwest of Johannesburg.
Mmapoloko, 64, fled the property in April following running battles with Modise's second wife Pearl Tafu. Modise, who led the 3.5million- strong church after inheriting it from his father Frederick in 1998, died in February this year.
- Obituary: Glayton Modise, head of ZCC breakaway churchBishop Glayton Modise, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 76, was the leader of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, which has 350 branches and more than three million members in Southern Africa.
A large crowd of the church's congregation that supports Tafu greeted Mmapoloko when she arrived in Zuurbekom with empty removal trucks, a number of police officers and armed Red Ants security personnel.
Scuffles broke out but two hours later the laden trucks left the premises with Mmapoloko's belongings.
Tafu was reportedly not home at the time and could not be reached for comment.
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